Example sentences for: urbane

How can you use “urbane” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Monet, ever respectful of his audience (and potential buyers), never indulged in the harsh jokes of his urbane contemporaries.

  • If I want to have conversation about the trivia of urban life, I can talk with my own wife; and you can fill the otherwise entertaining, informative, urbane, and whimsical pages of

  • The urbane assume and of course finesse the real meaning of the sentence, i.e., “We are worried that you may have indeed submitted this essay elsewhere.”

  • 1 is an urbane critic who delights in a clever, lyrical celebration of creamy fleshiness.

  • In Richard Conniff's urbane account of travelers' putdowns of some of the great and not so great cities of the world [XIV,3], he quotes a splendid passage from Dr. Samuel Johnson's poem on London, which culminates with the words, “Here falling houses thunder on your head, / And here a female atheist talks you dead.”


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